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Hello everyone. Here's something I bought today at a boot sale just because it's so pretty. The inner is a beautiful turquoise colour, it's thickly encased in clear and with lovely sparkly silver flecking to the outside. I recognise it as being Italian and I'm imagining it dates from the 1950s/60s but I don't have a clue as to the maker. Size = 4.5in/11cm from corner to corner and 1.5in/4cm high. Two photos below - any ideas anyone? TIA.

Thanks Paul - that's given me a starting point to find out more - I'm worse than hopeless when it comes to IDing Italian glass because I don't have that much experience of it (I've loads more Scandi than anything else) but find I'm often attracted to little bits of Italian glass for various reason - this one is very sparkly and it was winking at me in the sunshine :-) Cheers again, I shall google your info and see what I find.

It was the silver that made me include Fratelli Toso as an alternative to Barbini, certainly not a common feature in Barbini pieces, but I've scoured the books and can't find a Toso piece with the 4 fold rim at present.Paul

Just had a look at the photos again, and looks like the outer color is a creamy yellow? If it is a yellow color, then I would say closer to Avem, since I have a few Avem pieces, shell shapes, and bowl shapes, with that same creamy yellow color. I havent seen other maker use that color.Javier

Thanks Adam, Paul and Javier for your help in IDing this - I really do appreciate it. It's actually a white layer of glass (not yellow or even cream). I'd had a look around and found some pieces similar to Adam's lovely bowl that I thought might suggest it was Barbini but I wasn't aware he didn't use silver. So is the latest thought that it's either Fratelli Toso or AVEM? I'll have a search about and see what I can find to compare it to on the web - cheers everyone again :-)